Word: tinian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs' home air forces, staging in the Bonins, turned on a flurry of attack, bombed new U.S. airfields on Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas. But this preventive did not prevent another scare: three days later the U.S. reconnaissance planes were back over Tokyo. The Japs, who had been panicked by Jimmy Doolittle's token raid in 1942, were in a dither again, even before the first B-29 raid on Tokyo had been staged...
...veteran of Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian was on his way home last week, on leave. His name: Siwash. His species: duck (the mascot of a Marine Corps artillery outfit). His combat record...
...Tinian, Siwash got back into his waddle: he hit the beach on D-day and personally captured a tiny Jap duck. But he had to leave his war bride behind...
...after day the Japs were blasted by III Corps artillery, by rocket-firing aircraft from carriers and from captured airfields on Saipan and newly captured Tinian, by surface ships which stood off to east and west...
They quickly captured the elaborate Ushi air base-a major staging point in the Japs' steppingstone route to the south -and rolled on to take a second strip near Gurguan, also Tinian town. Casualty figures were vastly more favorable to U.S. forces than in any comparable island operation. Only 15 marines were lost in the landings; within a few hours, 1,200 Japs had died...